Columbia-Area Linux Users Group

Meetings

Presenters/speakers at CALUG meetings are welcome. If you have experience with an open-source hardware or software technology you find interesting, then please tell us about it at a monthly meeting. A list of potential topics is available here. The list is by no means all-inclusive. If you have a colleague who is doing interesting work with open-source, consider inviting your colleague to a CALUG meeting to speak. Presentations can be informal or formal, short or long, with or without props and slides - at the presenter's preference.

Our exciting planned/past meetings include/included the following speakers. Select the "Topic" column link to retrieve information presented by the corresponding speaker and/or relating to the topic.

How the Haskell programming language promotes bug-free software by enforcing heavy restrictions on source code, and on several open source software projects that use Haskell for this purpose (darcs, parsec, xmonad, yi). (OpenDocument, PPT)

2008-08-13

Dustin Mitchell

Amanda - An Introduction to the Application, Plans for the Future, and Thoughts About Today's Open Source Development Environment

Gaming in Linux: Wine and nVidia driver installation/configuration over Ubuntu; configuring/playing World of Warcraft; overview of Starcraft and other DOS-based games using DosBox; overview of Darwinia, Doom 3, and Quake native Linux clients.

2007-08-08

Dan Deighton

Overview of existing virtualization technologies followed by a real-world example featuring Xen. Tips, tricks and gotchas will be covered. (PDF)

Making a failed COTS solution useful with FOSS: How we overcame a technical limitation with a proprietary solution using a little creativity and FOSS to convert 100 COTS IDS appliances into our own security platforms.